Top 29 Reti Quotes

#1. I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

Terri Blackstock

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#2. The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

Richard Reti

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#3. Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

Richard Reti

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#4. I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.

Neil Patrick Harris

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#5. In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

Richard Reti

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#6. I didn't get married to get divorced.

Russell Crowe

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#7. Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

Terry Pratchett

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#8. There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

Elbert Hubbard

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#9. It is beyond words or thoughts.

Ramana Maharshi

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#10. It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements.

Richard Reti

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#11. It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

Richard Reti

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#12. The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

Richard Reti

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#13. Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

Charles Dickens

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#14. Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

Richard Reti

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#15. Where Eckhart Tolle meets Jack Kerouac meets Buddha. A free consciousness expanding book to kill Ego, sexual boredom & lack of excitement in life.

Gregor Reti

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#16. [A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

Immanuel Kant

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#17. For nothing was simply one thing.

Virginia Woolf

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#18. A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

Richard Reti

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#19. No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

Richard Reti

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#20. The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

Richard Reti

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#21. We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.

Richard Reti

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#22. A liberal, it turns out, is a conservative who's been indicted.

William Landay

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#23. But Shane-O, Shane-O, you've got it all wrong, son. You see, when I pass, I'm not gonna leave my money to you! When I pass, I'm gonna leave all of my money to my beautiful daughter Stephanie ... and, and whoever that guy is that knocked her up.

Triple H

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#24. Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

Richard Reti

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#25. Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt.

Thomas Frank

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#26. Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

Richard Reti

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#27. I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.

Timothy Omundson

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#28. It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

Richard Reti

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#29. The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

Richard Reti

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